SKU: BR.BV-247
Texte 1966 bis
1995. Composed by
Helmut Lachenmann. Edited
by Josef Hausler.
Hardback. Buchverlag
Breitkopf & Hartel (Music
Books). Music post-1945;
New music (post-2000).
Book. 488 pages.
Breitkopf and Haertel #BV
247. Published by
Breitkopf and Haertel
(BR.BV-247).
ISBN
9783765102479. 6.5 x 9.5
inches.
German.
Lachenmann'
s central essays such as
Klangtypen der Neuen
Musik (Types of Sound in
New Music), Die
gefahrdete Kommunikation
(Endangered
Communication), Zum
Problem des musikalisch
Schonen heute (The
Problem of Beauty in
Music Today), and his
essays on Mahler,
Schoenberg and Nono are
among the most important
testimonies of autonomous
musical thought in our
time. In addition to
Lachenmann's major
essays, this volume of
writings also contains
all of the composer's
work introductions as
well.The reprint 2004 is
essentially the result of
an intensive and critical
reading of the previous
text by Lachenmann
himself. The text was
generally only slightly
altered, with passages
rewritten and the
language occasionally
lightened. Only the
analysis of the Second
String Quartet Dance of
the Blessed Spirits,
which was very topical
back in 1996, was newly
conceived and
substantially changed.
The editor's
observations, work
catalogue and discography
have been revised and
updated.Dieses Buch kann
weder einfach nur benutzt
oder gelesen werden.
Dieses Buch muss wahrlich
studiert werden. Dem
Verlag ist zu danken fur
eine derart kompakte und
hervorragend gemachte
Buchausgabe. (Bettina von
Seyfried, Forum
Musikbibliothek) Ein
durchreflektiertes Buch,
ja geradezu ein
Kompendium
zeitgenossischen
Musikdenkens.
(Opernwelt).